Morning Light on Purple Daisies

I’m sure it will come as no shock that I have fun playing with light. For this one, I was sitting in the same spot as the bee silhouette shot from Thursday – along a roadside in a wetlands outside of Breckenridge, Colorado. I was facing the morning sun, and I didn’t have my macro lens. In fact, I didn’t have any lens but my zoom. Which turned out to be fun to experiment with, as I was able to shoot these flowers through a field, giving the photo itself some fun texture that I never would have gotten had I been a foot away from these flowers. I’ve rarely played with my zoom, since I’m a macro kind of gal, but it was fun, even if I never did see a bear, which was my prime reason for the zoom in the first place.

I love how this type of picture becomes all about composition. Is it just me, or do you feel a bit like a painter when you take these kind of shots? There is a wonderful sense of light with the flower petals ranging from mauve to white, gorgeous!